Mark Gray

#Panorama on #LucyLetby: the BBC in search of sensation. It's part of a pattern. The Beeb is out to make common cause with knownothing conspiracy theorists.

Just finished this - #FerdinandMount 's uncovering of the real life of his aunt. I remember his uncle with affection - my father worked for him. A kindly, impeccably dressed man, I remember a slightly stiff formality but also the warmth toward this (then) 5 year old. A pity he was so deceived.

Cornwall artist still enjoying life as she turns 107 " I think that somehow I've forgotten to die," says Mollie Silver.

'As she's gotten older...'. Has the BBC just given up on written English?

BBC News - Artist still enjoying life as she turns 107
www.bbc.com/news/article...

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One of the very, very few things that are positive about mild #asthma is one's ability to do a Mutley laugh. ('Schushin' fushin' rushin,' Dick Dastardley!')

A glorious name: Kingsman Baskett.

Is it just inexperience or is #Wetherby inaccessible easily by bus or train? Why does the north dislike Wetherby so much?

Art bought - 3 pieces (1839 watercolour bird and c.1825 naive watercolour landscape being two of them) in delightful #Pocklington. Henceforth having bought art shall be referred to as 'having pockled'.

Yes, this 👇. All of this. He's right.

So we needn't have bothered about 'levelling up'?

Here in #York for a few days hunting for 19thc art to buy but...it's a desert for it.

#Yorkshire folk - where should I be looking? (Going to #Wetherby antiques fair on Saturday).

The party of 'It never didn't not do me no 'arm'. Rickets, polluted beaches, lead in petrol. A glorious past.

Too late now but Barrister (trial attorney) in complex fraud cases. Niche, I know, but arguing a case on my feet based on command of detailed evidence and induction - yes, I'd crush it.

#SharonOsbourne is in deep, paralyzing grief and agony - and I'm moved by the sight of one human so in love with another she's beyond anything at this moment. May her family's love envelope and support her.

Slightly worrying message here. Surely it should be 'Don't let anyone tell you what you can or can't do IF YOU CAN ACTUALLY DO IT'. Not thrilled at the prospect of 'have a go' brain surgeons, for instance.

If that wouldbe #Renoir portrait on #FakeOrFortune was faked, surely the 'Ecole des Beaux-Arts' label would have (a) been from the 1860s/70s and, (b) been less evidently hidden? I know the prov trail isn't great but surely there's a rationale for that?

In the #WomensEuros #England look slower than Spain. Time to mix change in formation with some subs?

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It's Dunning-Kruger politics all the way in *all* political parties in the #UK at the moment. They're supremely confident in their cluelessness. We're doomed.

Bradford-on-Avon 'not being abandoned' after £11m scheme u-turn The Environment Agency said a permanent £11m flood scheme for the town is now

No, after reading the report it is pretty clear abandoning #BradfordOnAvon is *exactly* what you're doing #EnvironmentAgency.

BBC News - Bradford-on-Avon 'not being abandoned' after £11m scheme u-turn - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

What a lovely series: @robsongreen.bsky.social 's Weekend Escapes is a showcase for a lovely part of the world and a gentle joy of a programme. If you haven't caught it before, do yourself a favour: enjoy it.

Father guilty of murdering premature baby in Yeovil hospital Daniel Gunter inflicted “catastrophic injuries” to Brendon Staddon while he was in neonatal care.

Poor wee Brendon. This is awful. Awful. That a parent can do such a thing is hideous.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The #Starmer government is extraordinary. It's as if every day they wake up and say 'How many voters can we capriciously antagonize today?'
www.itn.co.uk/news/environ...

@wokingham-libdem.bsky.social, since #WokinghamBoroughCouncil isn't here, perhaps you'll relay a message? Here's what the council *said* they'd collect today. They didn't. They collected recycling.

Is it a game?

Gang leaders and corrupt officials could be named in smuggling sanctions Fake passport dealers and firms which sell small boats could also be hit with financial sanctions under government plans.

'Could'? You'd have thought this would have happened years ago.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

New ‘powerful’ water regulator to replace ‘failed’ Ofwat in drive to ‘reset’ sector Environment secretary backs Cunliffe review’s plan to end sewage scandals and financial mismanagement and ‘change the whole system’

I don't get: you've a local monopoly of supply over something that literally falls from the sky, the 'regulator' seems cool about ludicrous price hikes, you pollute to save money, fines are derisory and executive pay fantastic.

And you're in *debt*???

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Unexpected #TSEliot at #Marlow:

Go, go, go, said the bird: human kind
Cannot bear very much reality.
Time past and time future
What might have been and what has been
Point to one end, which is always present

To #AllSaintsChuch in #Marlow for a splendid summer concert for piano, organ and soprano. Delightful.

Loving the #ColdplayCouple memes.

The Big Cases - The Sycamore Gap - From Roots to Ruin A single tree, growing in a natural dip along Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland, is destroyed overnight, and a community is left reeling. Who chopped down the tree at Sycamore Gap and why?

Just watched this and along with millions of others there'sxone question.

Why? For what earthly reason would you do that?

The Big Cases, The Sycamore Gap - From Roots to Ruin: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002fnjp via @bbciplayer

Under-pressure BBC boss getting tough after controversies The past weeks have put serious pressure on Tim Davie's leadership, says Katie Razzall.

Seeing a BBC journalist having to almost apologise for rattling the cage of #TimDavie is very, very worrying.

#DCMS, there is something very wrong with the culture of the Beeb under this man and this board. Surely you can see it?

www.bbc.com/news/article...

It's 1826. You've just bought a new book, but you can't afford your own ex libris bookplate. So you make this.